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Yorkshire Contemporary Art Group and St Paul's Gallery Leeds Archive

Archive Collection: MS 1568

Details

Type of record: Archive

Title: Yorkshire Contemporary Art Group and St Paul's Gallery Leeds Archive

Level: Collection

Classmark: MS 1568

Date(s): 1979-1988

Language: English

Size and medium: 14 boxes; manuscript, typescript, photographs, printed material.

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/7146

Description

Comprises: 1) Correspondence, posters, photographs and other material related to "New Art in Yorkshire" exhibition, 1987; 2) Material relating to exhibitions and events held by YCAG, 1984-1988; 3) Material relating to exhibitions and events held at St Paul's Gallery, 1979-1987; 4) Correspondence, 1979-1987; 5) Minutes of YCAG Management Committee and Liaison Committee; 6) Minutes of St Paul's Gallery Governors Meetings; 7) Material relating to individual artists; 8) Diaries, 1984-1987; 9) Three scrapbooks of newspaper cuttings.

Biography or history

St Paul's Gallery was opened in 1979 as a continuation of Park Street Gallery, using the same premises on St Paul's Street, Leeds. From 1984 the Gallery shared Stowe House, Bishopgate Street, with studio space provided by Leeds Art Space Society. St Paul's Gallery closed in 1987. Yorkshire Contemporary Art Group was formed in 1984 to devise and administer art projects in Yorkshire and Humberside, and to develop opportunities for artists. YCAG was a co-operation between St Paul's Gallery, Yorkshire Printmakers Ltd. and Leeds Art Space Society.

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